Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist
Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist serves about 140 people through 55 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Stanly County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0184142; phone on file: 704-986-3686. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2016 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist compares
Of the 1,925 North Carolina systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 75 have gone over at some point. Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in North Carolina and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Stanly County
12 other systems share Stanly County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albemarle, City Of | 17,506 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-West Stanly Dist | 9,939 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pfeiffer-N Stanly Water Assoc | 4,513 | 3 ppb |
| Norwood, Town Of | 4,323 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Aquadale Dist | 3,632 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakboro, Town Of | 3,173 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Palestine-Badin Dist | 1,964 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Piney Point Dist | 1,013 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanfield #3-Polk Ford/Renee Ford | 854 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stanly Co-Millingport Dist | 709 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Stanly Co-Badin Rd Dist whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.